Primate Urges

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Primate Urges

The discovery of a 25,000-year-old skeleton is the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthal and modern man not only coexisted but, uh, CO-existed. The skeleton of a 4-year-old boy, unearthed in Portugal last year, displays attributes common to both, suggesting that the tribes did more than throw rocks at each other. Whether there was actually any cross-pollinating going on remains a subject of debate; many scientists are skeptical. Still, the kid must have gotten that forehead someplace.